Nitrous headache

[justtakethat]

Recently i got suck a bad headache off nitrous. I strongly suspect it was lack of oxygen accidently because as soon as i breathed in it was hurting and the more i held my breath the worse it got. It persisted for about 2 hours and i also felt sick. Has anyone ever gotten an excrutiating headache from nitrous that lasted a couple hours?

 

[Renald]

Recently i got suck a bad headache off nitrous. I strongly suspect it was lack of oxygen accidently because as soon as i breathed in it was hurting and the more i held my breath the worse it got. It persisted for about 2 hours and i also felt sick. Has anyone ever gotten an excrutiating headache from nitrous that lasted a couple hours?

This is typical if N2O concentration is larger as 50% with the remaining 50% being oxygen. Breathing N2O from a balloon fast enough you can reach larger concentrations, also, you are lacking oxygen and may suffer hypoxia.

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=bb6e6ec1114022cff58d56c6c6388703

 

[justtakethat]

This is typical if N2O concentration is larger as 50% with the remaining 50% being oxygen. Breathing N2O from a balloon fast enough you can reach larger concentrations, also, you are lacking oxygen and may suffer hypoxia.

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=bb6e6ec1114022cff58d56c6c6388703

I took an ibuprofen and it pretty much made then headache dissapeare and im not sick anymore 3 hours after the last baloon, i dont think the headache this time was worth it and ill be sticking to weed and opiates.

 

[justtakethat]

This isnt permanent or anythinf right? I mean i know i lost some brain cells doing that and have a very slight headache today but by hypoxia did u mean for a few hours?

 

[Renald]

Probably not, but I advice you to have spo2 monitor on your finger next time, if you are trying such long oxygen deprivation experiments. Dont allow your spo2 drop lower as 90 percent for a significant time. Surely, you will have moments when your spo2 will drop to 70, but if this happens for several seconds, for me it looks not so dangerous comparing to long time 85,for example. I saw there are oxygen concentrators on eBay, maybe it would be a nice thing to buy such a device and prefill the balloon with known nitrous/oxygen proportion.

 

[justtakethat]

Probably not, but I advice you to have spo2 monitor on your finger next time, if you are trying such long oxygen deprivation experiments. Dont allow your spo2 drop lower as 90 percent for a significant time. Surely, you will have moments when your spo2 will drop to 70, but if this happens for several seconds, for me it looks not so dangerous comparing to long time 85,for example. I saw there are oxygen concentrators on eBay, maybe it would be a nice thing to buy such a device and prefill the balloon with known nitrous/oxygen proportion.

Yea if it had oxygen and nitrous id do it but not other than that. Also i couldnt hold my breath too long because it was like throbbing as soon as i breathed in, i suspect it was because i was distracted while filling the baloon and probably was barely breathing like i should have bean.